{"id":34940,"date":"2018-10-31T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=34940"},"modified":"2018-10-31T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T09:01:33","slug":"database-soon-of-savings-schemes-linked-with-aadhaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/database-soon-of-savings-schemes-linked-with-aadhaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Database soon of savings schemes linked with Aadhaar:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/database-soon-of-savings-schemes-linked-with-aadhaar\/article19754650.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Database soon of savings schemes linked with Aadhaar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently meeting chaired by cabinet Secretariat \u00a0to discuss the \u201cinteroperability of savings schemes\u201d and linking them to Aadhaar.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What government is planning?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cabinet Secretariat is keen on a central database of government and private sector employees who have subscribed to the general provident fund (GPF), public provident fund (PPF) and employees\u2019 provident fund (EPF) with Aadhaar as the primary identifier.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What was the objective of meeting?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To deliberate on Aadhaar linking of GPF, PPF and EPF accounts of employees,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To examine the possibility of a centralised repository of employees\u2019 fund details with Aadhaar as the primary identifier and <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To establishing portability of fund accounts across organisations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Some facts related to EPF, GPF, PPF<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For government employees, the Ministry of Finance said that it is developing Employees\u2019 Information System, an online salary application system, which may also be used to maintain information related to GPF.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While EPF is the savings scheme for private sector employees, the GPF is meant for government employees and PPF can be subscribed to by all workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Department of Posts informed the Cabinet Secretariat that 4.7 crore out of 56 crore PPF accounts in post offices were linked with Aadhaar. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Database soon of savings schemes linked with Aadhaar: Context Recently meeting chaired by cabinet Secretariat \u00a0to discuss the \u201cinteroperability of savings schemes\u201d and linking them to Aadhaar. What government is planning? The Cabinet Secretariat is keen on a central database of government and private sector employees who have subscribed to the general provident fund (GPF),&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/database-soon-of-savings-schemes-linked-with-aadhaar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Database soon of savings schemes linked with Aadhaar:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704817075},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}